British Indian Army versus The Indian National Army

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Yvette Rosser <yvetterosser> wrote:

For a dicussion of this topic:

British Indian Army versus The Indian National Army

 

Please see this web page:

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose & India's Independence

 

http://www.tamilnation.org/ideology/bose.htm

 

 

"..Apart from revisionist historians, it was none

other than Lord Clement Atlee himself, the British

Prime Minister responsible for conceding independence

to India, who gave a shattering blow to the myth

sought to be perpetuated by court historians, that

Gandhi and his movement had led the country to

freedom. Chief Justice P.B. Chakrabarty of Calcutta

High Court, who had also served as the acting Governor

of West Bengal in India, disclosed the following in a

letter addressed to the publisher of Dr. R.C.

Majumdar's book A History of Bengal. The Chief Justice

wrote:

 

You have fulfilled a noble task by persuading Dr.

Majumdar to write this history of Bengal and

publishing it ... In the preface of the book Dr.

Majumdar has written that he could not accept the

thesis that Indian independence was brought about

solely, or predominantly, by the non-violent civil

disobedience movement of Gandhi. When I was the acting

Governor, Lord Atlee, who had given us independence by

withdrawing the British rule from India, spent two

days in the Governor's palace at Calcutta during his

tour of India. At that time I had a prolonged

discussion with him regarding the real factors that

had led the British to quit India. My direct question

to him was that since Gandhi's "Quit India" movement

had tapered off quite some time ago and in 1947 no

such new compelling situation had arisen that would

necessitate a hasty British departure, why did they

have to leave? In his reply Atlee cited several

reasons, the principal among them being the erosion of

loyalty to the British Crown among the Indian army and

navy personnel as a result of the military activities

of Netaji [bose]. Toward the end of our discussion I

asked Atlee what was the extent of Gandhi's influence

upon the British decision to quit India. Hearing this

question, Atlee's lips became twisted in a sarcastic

smile as he slowly chewed out the word,

"m-i-n-i-m-a-l! Ranjan Borra, "Subhas Chandra Bose,

the Indian National Army, and the War of India's

Liberation," Journal of Historical Review, no. 3, 4

(Winter 1982)

 

"...The Indian Army in India is not obeying the

British officers. We have recruited our workers for

the war; they have been demobilised after the war.

They are required to repair the factories damaged by

Hitler's bombers. Moreover, they want to join their

kith and kin after five and a half years of

separation. Their kith and kin also want to join them.

In these conditions if we have to rule India for a

long time, we have to keep a permanent British army

for a long time in a vast country of four hundred

millions.We have no such army...." Labour Cabinet

Minister, Sir Stafford Cripps intervening on behalf of

the UK government in the debate in the British House

of Commons to support the grant of independence to

India,1946 - quoted in 'The Freedom Struggle and the

Dravidian Movement' by P.Ramamurti, Orient Longman,

1987

 

 

The webpage has excerpts from Mihir Bose's enthralling

"The lost hero : a biography of Subhas Bose "

published by Quartet Press, 1982 (ISBN 0-7043-2301-X

 

 

 

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